The Tories really know how to spend our money don’t they
I suppose we could be pleased they have at least one competency.
LMAO at Lee Anderson as Deputy Chairman. I give him a month before he does something so embarrassing, Sunak has to sack him.
I see Shapps’ focus includes “bringing down bills and thereby helping to halve inflation” - something that every economic forecast I’ve seen says will happen this year anyway.
It costs a minimum of £15m to set up a new government department, with up to an additional £19m each in lost productivity (Durrant & Tetlow, 2019; Institute of Government).
The report notes that “while creating a new department can be useful to focus on a high priority issue or to bring together related policy areas, most changes are rushed and can end up causing confusion. The hassle of setting up a new organisation distracts from the problem the government wanted to solve.”
Bit of a shame they got rid of the Department of Energy and Climate Change just a few short years ago isn't it? A machinery of government change doesn't come cheap.
I liked a post setting the following “renewables for realists” exam question “If 100 wind turbines generate no electric when the wind isn’t blowing, how much energy will 1,000 turbines generate?”.
Grant Shapps - Energy Security & Net Zero Michelle Donelan - Science, Innovation & Technology Kemi Badenoch - Business & Trade Lucy Frazer - Culture, Media & Sport Greg Hands - Tory party chair
He needs to appoint a new chairman. Poison chalice really as apparently whoever is chairman gets the blame for poor showing in the local elections in May.
Word had it that Raab won’t be shoved out. Patiently waiting for results of mega-bullying enquiry.